| Paradigm City - Paradigm City is an "artificial" reality, playing out as a program or "play" on a "stage". At a certain time in each incarnation of Paradigm, the memory of the key programming activates and utilizes Big Venus to erase Paradigm and reset the program. The repeated proccess results in the reality becoming "more real" with each try, until it can be satisfactorily concluded that the current world is real enough to continue existence. Evidence of this can be found in the discussion between Roger and Gordon Rosewater in episode 13, "R-D", as well as several flashbacks/visions in which there are depictions of at least two different Paradigms, and the leftover material left over from "before 40 years ago", like wasted structures around the city. Or rather, it becomes harder to reincarnate Paradigm without the remains of the previous still being there, as if a lost civilization had been there. See episodes 4, 7, 12, 13, 17, 23, 24, 25, 26. Roger Smith - Paradigm City's "negotiator", Roger Smith is something like a human, but not quite. Or, at least, he is different from ordinary humans. He was around when the domes were being built and accepted a contract from Gordon Rosewater to negotiate with the "director" of the world they live in. He bleeds like a human, but a flash/vision seems to show mass-produced Roger robots. It's not clear whether he is a specialty android, a cyborg like Alan Gabriel, or something entirely different. His role in the simulated reality seems to be to reason with the key programming for the sake of the shaping of the next version of Paradigm. Tomatoes - 25 years before the show begins, Gordon Rosewater had memories of the governing committee of Paradigm City (somehow) implanted into several children from an orphanage. The purpose was to see if these children could remember things that occured before 40 years prior. The experiment was a failure - the children grew up only remember as far as after what happened 40 years ago. Many of them were cast out of Paradigm, and became the Union. Some power (either the Union or Alex Rosewater) hired Dr. Wayenright to build an assassin android to kill them (R-D). They were assassinated by R-D, who was ultimately destroyed by the Big O when trying to kill Roger Smith. One of the valued tomato children was brought up as Gordon's own son - Alex Rosewater. Union - The cast aside tomato children, the ones who the experiment failed on and couldn't remember any of the things implanted in them by Gordon Rosewater. They formed a spy network that worked in sleeper cells in Paradigm City, but they never had the clout or force they thought they did. Were those "planes" that "bombed" Paradigm City really from the Union? Or was that the lights above the stage falling? There's little evidence of that, other than what Gordon said about them. They seem to believe that there's a "homeland" for them, but there never was. They were only lead to believe that in their confusion. Androids - It's possible that androids are constructs which were built to interface with megadeuses. Certain androids have a higher capacity for retaining memories and likely have been built so as to be able to interface with Megadeuses like the "Big" series even after several incarnations of Paradigm. The Union sent the Android Crusher android into the city as an attempt to rid Paradigm of any interface that may help Alex Rosewater awaken Big Fau. Do you agree with this? |
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